I just want to take a minute to thank Matt Turner (mattst88) for all his hard work and leadership in keeping Gentoo/MIPS alive within the project.

It has been a long, tough road for the MIPS port of Gentoo. Our hardware is quirky, extremely diversified, sometimes archaic, and not the easiest in the world to understand. With my time having been limited over the past two or so years, we had regressed a fair bit, and the MIPS port as a whole has largely been leaderless. Thus we became a thorn in the side of many a developer, many of whom I sure asked the question, "Why are we still supporting this oddball architecture?".

Matt has stepped up to the plate and gotten things fixed up and working again, a task that I honestly felt was becoming more and more of a long-shot with each passing week. We have new stages -- in all ABIs and two (or three now?) ISAs, proper multilib support, our bug count is actually going down, and possibly new install media on the way. None, I repeat, none of this would have been possible without Matt's leadership and drive to make the MIPS port relevant once more.

So please join me in thanking Matt for his hard work, time, and leadership in making Gentoo/MIPS a viable element of the Gentoo project one again!